Category Archives: Startup Stories

It all started over dinner. Ellen Hyslop was waxing poetic about the Toronto Maple Leafs’ improbable run into the NHL playoffs despite having a young, rebuilding team. Her friends Roslyn McLarty and Jacie deHoop weren’t big sports fans, but they found themselves mesmerized by Hyslop’s story. Her storytelling had a millennial voice and felt like a breath of fresh air compared to today’s typical (meaning, primarily male) sports culture.

Sumorwuo Zaza is tackling one of journalism’s toughest problems: monetizing content. In the old days, people bought physical newspapers and magazines and those revenues — combined with advertising sales — made publishers profitable.

Founder Molly Beck has a plan to make podcasting easy for everyone by making it as uncomplicated as launching a blog. Her startup Messy.fm is an all-in-one podcast production platform that makes it possible for even the most novice podcasters to record, edit, publish, publicize, and monetize podcasts without ever leaving the Messy.fm site — and without buying fancy equipment.

Ryan Kihm couldn’t help but smile when he dropped off the very first shipments of Pium at the post office. For years, he’s been tinkering with the home fragrance device that allows users to plan a scent schedule for each day. (Think refreshing rosemary in the morning and relaxing lavender at night.)

Tyler Bushnell and Jake Galler learned a lot this summer. They’re the co-founders of Polycade, a gaming console that brings people together for social, in-person gaming. It’s more of an experience platform than a traditional arcade console. You can play classic games and modern titles. You can save data and share gameplay videos. Most importantly, it’s made gaming social again.

Originally Published by Bunker Labs Bunker Labs is witnessing a recent surge in military veteran entrepreneurship. Comcast NBCUniversal is proud to support their mission to catalyze the entrepreneurial potential of the military experience to lead innovation in the American economy and to empower veterans. Below are just a few of the exciting veteran-owned companies coming […]